The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Houston, we've had a problem here.

You need to be a person who makes things happen.

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you : 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.

Art can contradict Science.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.

You cannot buy or win happiness. You must choose it.

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.

A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.

I don't mind if people look at me like I'm crazy. I'm just being me.